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UniCredit agrees 1200 voluntary job cuts with unions

UniCredit today announces that it has signed a trade union agreement with the Delegations of FABI, FIRST CISL, FISAC/CGIL, UILCA and UNISIN, aimed at the structural relaunch of the Italian bank's branch network in the period until the end of 2024, as set out in its strategic plan, focused on unlocking the full commercial potential of UniCredit, encouraging generational change and strengthening the training and development of the Group's people in Italy.

27 January 2022

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UniCredit partners Nexi to offer merchants SoftPOS-based payment acceptance

UniCredit Bank is to start offering its merchant customers technology from Nexi that lets them use their mobile phones as payments terminals.

24 January 2022

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UniCredit and JP Morgan employ Swift Go for payments between Europe and US

Utilising the banking cooperative’s low value remittance solution, UniCredit and JP Morgan have partnered to allow small businesses and consumers send fast and secure near real-time cross border payments at a competitive price with Swift Go.

08 October 2021

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EBAday 2021: Payments transformation and the road to success

Finextra Research and the Euro Banking Association today welcomed the global banking community to EBAday 2021. Running from 28-30 June, the virtual conference is being led by some of the most influential leaders and practitioners in the financial services sector, and dives into the current and future trends of the European and international payments landscape – as well as the latest developments across digital banking, liquidity management, open banking, real-time payments, and more.

28 June 2021

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UniCredit creates new digital division

Italy's UniCredit is to create a new digital division as part of a wide-ranging overhaul of the business under new CEO Andrea Orcel.

12 May 2021

Company announcement/payments

UniCredit and SIA ink revised card processing agreement

Following up on the press release issued on October 5, 2020, UniCredit and SIA announce that they successfully revised the overall terms of their current outsourcing agreement for the supply of certain processing services in Italy, Austria and Germany concerning card transactions and the management of POS and ATM terminals.

12 February 2021

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UniCredit taps Meniga for mobile app development

Meniga, a leading provider of digital banking technology, has partnered with global banking and financial services company, UniCredit, to launch an enhanced version of the “Mobilna Banka Go!” in Slovenia.

21 January 2021

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UniCredit names Marco Bressan group data and analytics officer

UniCredit today announced that it is appointing Marco Bressan, a renowned data scientist with a long-standing background and experience of data driven transformation, as Group Data and Analytics Officer.

10 December 2020

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UniCredit chief Mustier quits

UniCredit today announced that its current CEO, Jean Pierre Mustier, has informed the board of directors that he will be retiring from his role at the end of his mandate which expires in April 2021, concurrent with the overall board.

01 December 2020

Company announcement

UniCredit offloads loans portfolio to Illimity

UniCredit announces today an agreement with Illimity Bank S.p.A. ("Illimity").

11 November 2020

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UniCredit inks remote working agreement with employee reps

UniCredit has become the latest firm to rethink its long-term attitude towards where staffers work in the wake of Covid-19, agreeing a deal to give all employees the chance to spend a part of their week working from home.

21 October 2020

Company announcement/retail

UniCredit to run Tel Aviv bootcamp for female entrepreneurs

How does Israel's innovation ecosystem work? What are the shared routes and key steps that have brought success to so many Israeli start-ups? Can these growth and scale-up models be replicated in other places?

19 October 2020